During the big supply haul of 2021, I also bought a meter of something they called ‘Non-Woven Arachne’, some sort of interlining for oven gloves. Not because I’m particularly convinced I can make oven mitts better or cheaper than any store, but because I wanted to be able to fully choose the fabric for them. I’d recently acquired some dinosaur printed cotton with details in the same colour as my kitchen wall, which seemed the perfect combination. Also, dinosaurs in top hats.. who can say no?!
As for the mitts, the plan was to have a lining, a layer of the interlining and then the cotton on the outside. Quilt those together, cut out the mitt shape and sew it into the final shape. After making a quilt sandwich with only one layer of interlining, I was a bit scared that it wouldn’t be enough heat protection, so I tried again with two layers. I’d traced around one of my old mitts and added some seam allowance and cut those pieces out of my sandwich. Sewed them together, including a hanging loop, then zigzagged the edges, bound the bottom edge and decided this order of operations was not ideal. Trying to wrestle several layers of quilted oven glove under the machine to bind the bottom edge is not pleasant.
So for the second mitt, I decided to use some of the scraps of the first mitt and cut out a second layer of interlining for the finger and thumb part of the mitt. I zigzagged the edges of the interlining and the sandwich, then quilted the extra part on top. I sewed it down along the ‘mid-hand’ edge too. I put in the hanging loop, bound the two bottom edges separately (much easier) and then sewed the two parts together. This is the order of operations that seemed to be much smoother and easier to handle. All in all, I hope these will serve a good long time as I recently had to retire some of my gloves for either being a bit too burnt or for accidentally getting a lot of dye on them.. Those are no longer anywhere close to food safe. I also still have more of the interlining and the cotton, so I can make more if they turn out to work well.
Ik heb nog geen ovenwanten, dus als je niks te doen hebt en teveel materiaal…. 🙂